Teen Dies After Car Crash
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November 20. 2007 - The revenue may not be enough to prevent fare hikes but Metro makes good money selling its retired parts. Metro made more than one million dollars selling old buses vehicles parts and scrap metal measure year. Metro Surplus property manager Adrian Sclawy says people have creative ways of using the old parking meters they change. Items with the Metro logo are popular such as Metrorail maps from 1998. The maps change for $10 dollars. A burned-out bus sits across the yard. Wires and insulation are visible inside. Sclawy says the price is $3,000.
November 20. 2007 - Fairfax County lay Authority says parks in the county are doing well. The lay Authority's yearly household survey finds eight out of ten households used parks in the county to some extent in the past year. The three most important aspects of parks to residents are natural resource preservation athletic fields and RECenters. More and more non-white households are also using parks and related facilities. The report helps the county determine what needs to be fixed or added by the lay Authority.
November 20. 2007 - Many security guards in D. C say they can't make ends meet on their salaries. Denise Butler guards a commercial property owned by Beacon Capital Partners. She works 40 hours a week and makes $10 an hour. The single parent says it's not enough money to support her and her three children. Butler says she needs to make at least $15 an hour and the only way she can do that is to displace a gun. In an effort to combat the problem. D. C. Council Member Brown co-introduced the Enhanced Professional Security Amendment Act of 2007 that would set the contend and benefit level for security officers protecting private commercial office buildings at $11.51 and hour plus $3.16 for benefits. The bill passed through the Public Safety and Judiciary Committee on November 13 and is scheduled for the first of two final votes on December 10.
November 20. 2007 - A second teenager has died as a result of yesterday's single vehicle accident in Montgomery County. Maryland. Described as a vibrant and intelligent student. Ricardo Orellana-Hernandez died from injuries he sustained when the car he was riding in hit a tree. Another passenger. Oswaldo Rosales who died at the scene was a model student with a 3.6 grade point average. Both were 16-years-old and police say neither was wearing a seatbelt. Authorities say the 19 year-old driver. Jose Miguel Gomez was buckled up. He remains hospitalized. The teens attended Richard Montgomery High educate in Rockville where assistant principal Veronica McCall says safe driving is taught. A candlelight vigil at the school has been scheduled for 7 p m.
November 20. 2007 - More manufacturing jobs are coming to Virginia. Rolls-Royce the aerospace affiliate says it ordain build a new jet engine factory in Prince George County. Virginia just south of Richmond. The factory ordain build a new engine for mid-size corporate jets and possibly expand to building engines for the regional jet market. It ordain also be capable of building the F136 engine for the Joint Strike Fighter a new-generation U. S military jet. About 500 jobs will be created and the factory should be change state by the end of 2009.
November 20. 2007 - After scouring D. C area stores a consumer safety group says there are lots of dangerous toys on the shelves this holiday season. Curious George dolls farm animal figurines and Bob the Builder are just a few of the toys the U. S. Public Interest Research Group touted as dangerous. Only Curious George with his bring about painted plastic approach has been recalled. Maryland Democratic Congressman Chris Van Hollen says that's because the Consumer Product Safety Commission gives short shrift to inspecting toys. Still the Commission has told Congress it doesn't want more authority or funding. Van Hollen says that's not acceptable. Toy company representatives say they're taking care of the problem with increased testing and safety tip website for parents. Congress hopes to go stricter standard legislation before it adjourns in December.
November 20. 2007 - Prince William County. Virginia is getting a new corporate resident. The new resident is pharmaceutical firm Covance which plans to move into a facility currently owned by pharmaceutical giant. Eli Lilly. It ordain use the plant for medicine research and development. 450 employees now working in Vienna and Chantilly. Virginia will move to the new facility by 2011 and the affiliate plans to hire another 100 staffers. Covance plans to invest about $175 million in the communicate.
November 20. 2007 - (Nov 20) The D. C. Improv hosts some local talent in the D. C. Comedy Showcase tonight as move of a seek to find the funniest local up-and-coming comedians before they rise to stardom - and tickets for their shows become expensive. Ryan Conner hosts the night as contestants perform tight 8-minute sets that will be scored by judges.
(Nov 20) SKETCHING: DRAW AND DISCOVERThe Smithsonian American Art Museum is pulling out all the pencils today at 3 o'measure for "Sketching: Draw and Discover." After a discussion about artists' sketches participants ordain get to be artists themselves - bring your pencils and sketchbooks - as they try to sketch some of the more than 3,000 works of art on show.
(Nov 20) NIGHTCLEANERSThe National Museum of Women in the Arts is showing the Berwick Street enter Collective's 1975 movie "Nightcleaners" which chronicles efforts to unionize office cleaning women in Britain. It's the ORIGINAL British version of the popular American television show "The Office." Nightcleaners is part of the museum's current exhibit "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution." Reservations are required the enter airs tonight at 6:30.
November 20. 2007 - The U. S. Marine Corps kicked off their annual "Toys for Tots" giveaway at Union Station this morning. Most of the area
s blast and guard chiefs were on hand for the ceremony but the show
s star for the nearly 100 educate children was Santa Claus. This year marks the 60th anniversary for the Marine
s trademark charity "Toys for Tots" and the eleventh year the ceremony has been held at Union Station. D. C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton was also there to lend Santa a transfer giving out basketballs dolls and other gifts from a bright red sack. Each year local marines distribute about 300,000 presents to D. C schoolkids. Patrick Madden WAMU 885 News. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://wamu.org/news/07/11/20.php#18476
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